Emil,

Slightly off-topic, I wish to thank you guys at Sunet for this service along the years, I have used your server a lot, for as long as I can remember and not only for CentOS; loads of BSD, Slackware, Mandrake etc was downloaded. Sorry to see it go.

Adjö :-)

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From: "Emil" archive@ftp.sunet.se To: centos-mirror@centos.org Sent: Friday, 17 July, 2015 16:46:43 Subject: [CentOS-mirror] time to remove our mirror

Hi!

As hinted about a year ago ftp.sunet.se is shutting down, and now it is time remove us from any mirror list.

I'm not familiar with the centos "infra structure system", will it take effect as soon as the list is updated or will existing users suffer unless I put a redirect in apache?

Thanks!

// Emil

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17.7.2015, 18.46, Emil kirjoitti:

Hi!

As hinted about a year ago ftp.sunet.se is shutting down, and now it is time remove us from any mirror list.

I'm not familiar with the centos "infra structure system", will it take effect as soon as the list is updated or will existing users suffer unless I put a redirect in apache?

Hi, I too thank you for the service you have provided over the years. Living in Finland, your mirror has been a nearby mirror for quite a few things I have needed.

I believe Fabian is currently travelling and he's the guy who can remove your mirror from the list. To speed up the process a bit, I would suggest removing the files TIME and timestamp.txt from your mirror and stop syncing from msync.c.o (or amend your mirroring script to remove those files after syncing). The mirror checker will notice that your mirror is not up to date and will not include your mirror on the list any more.

I have some control over the IPv6 mirrorlist output, so I have already removed your mirror from that list.

yum may cache metadata for a few days, perhaps for around a week. Therefore you will get requests even after your mirror has been removed from the list. This is not particularly fatal, though. If yum is unable to download something from your mirror, it will move on to downloading that file from some other mirror. I think it would be unnecessary to set up redirects. Obviously if someone has hardcoded their system to use your mirror (with a baseurl=http://ftp.sunet.se/...), they will need to reconfigure their repository configuration.